Lateral fluid-support for turbine-shafts.



F. LJUNGSTRUM. LATERAL'FLUID SUPPORT FOR TURBINE SHAPTS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 26,1913.

L1%9,%U9, Patented Feb.23, 1915. I

WIT/Name's.- IWEMM QZ /Q I Ell runners; munesruoiut, or STOGKHOLM,

SWEDEN, ASSIGNOR '10 AKTIE BOLAGET LJUNG-STRilIll/IS ANGTUBEIN, OF LILJEHOLIVIEN, SWEDEN.

LATERALFLUID-SUPPORT FOR TURBINE-Sll-IAFTS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Fem 23, 1915.

Application filed July 26, 1913. Serial No. 781,363.

To aZZ whom it may concern Be it known that I, FREDRIK- loose.- s'rnoar, citizen of Sweden, residing at 2 Drottninghohnsvfigen, Stockholm, Sweden, have invented certain new and useful 11nprovements in Lateral l quid-Supports for Turbine-Shafts, of which. the following is a specification. I

In steam or gas turbines,especially those which. provided with automatically act-- lug balancing devices to take up the axial pressure, vibrations of the shaft in the longitudinal direction are experienced 'lo avoid this oil brakes or checks are used. I

The invention relates to such a device and has for its object to avoid the entrance of air in the oil chamber, as such entrance would interfere with the action of the oil. The invention is illustrated in longitudinal section in, the annexed drawing in which-ro indicates the turbine shatt, connected with the turbine, b indicates a piston, arrangedin a cylinder and connected with shaft (4 by means of the yielding shaft c.

The oil cylinder (Z contains the suction and pressure chambers c and 6 through which the stems f, f of the piston pass These stems are mounted with a slight play in the" cylinder cover and the cylinder bottomit.

The chaniliiers c and e are connected by means of the suction valves 2 and i with the oil supply tube 7, which preferably is connected with the lubricating pinup of the turbine or any other pressure device, The tube j may, however, also be connected to any suitable receiver.

In the event of longitudinal vibrations being transmitted to the turbine shaft these vibrations Will be transferred by i'ncans of the shafts a and to the piston, and at each movement of the piston i; in the direction if oil is sucked through i into c, while when the piston is displaced in. the other direction is oil sucked into a through Air thus never can be sucked around the stems f, f and no air cushions interfering with or counteracting the braking eltcct can be formed.

The oscillations can only continue so long as the forces, producingtlrrem, are sulllcicntly ,e'reat force out again past 3), and f the oil sucked in, the greatest part of the oil be mg forced from the chamber 12 into the chamber cl or vice versa.

The air'which eventually finds its way with the oil into the chambers 2 and o, together with any gases therein, are forced inwardly by centrifugal force and collect around the stems and At each stroke of the piston the air and other gases are dri ven out.

Theicylinder (.Z is preferably inclosed in the *zlsing 0, which in turn is connected with the turbine casing. The screws on, m close the holes n, n, which when the oil is admitted to the device serve as air outlets.

The shaft 0 is made yielding, so that the piston 7), independently of the radial vibrations of o, moves centrally in the cylinder d.

Even in the event that o is not entirely conaXial to the turbine shaft, no radial vibrations thus are transferred from a to d. This is of great importance for the proper action of the device, because the guiding of the piston b is ellected by the steu'is, around which the airand the gases may escape.

instead of oil any other fluid may be employed.

I claim:

1. A fluid device for the compensation of axial vibratimis in or steam turbines, coi'i'iprisil'w a cylinder, :1 piston rotatable in said cylinder, pressure chambers provided in said c \,-'liu,der on each side of said piston, and suction valves by in ans of which fluid can be supplied to said cylinders.

A fluid device tor the compensation of a ial vibrations in gas or steam turbines, comprising a cylii'uler, a piston rotatable in said cylinder, pressure chambers provided in said cylinder on each side of said p and suction. valves by means of which I an be supplied to the cylinders, two steals being: connected to said cylinder and loosely mounted so as to allow a certain amount of play.

I A. lluid device for the compensation ol' axial vil'uations in gas or steam turbines, ("(Hlllll'lSlllQ a cylinder, a piston rotatable in said cvlii'uler, pressure chambers provided in said cylinder on each side of said piston, and suction valves by means of which fluid can be supplied to the cylinders, the fluid side of said piston, and suction valves by means of which fluid can be supplied to said 10 cylinders.v

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

FREDRIK LJUNGST 10M.

Witnesses:

HARRY A BILIN, F. BERGMAN. 

